Jeff JarvisNov 22, 2022
The good news is that the NYTimes covers @journa.host. The bad news is that @josephbernstein gets it wrong: initial funding comes not from rich, old Columbia, but from my poor, dear Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY and the Tow-Knight Center that I direct there. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/21/style/mastodon-twitter-adam-davidson.html
From Twitter to Mastodon: What Happens When Journalists Flock Platforms

Journa.host promises to be a new “reliable home for journalists.” What happens when they move in?

The New York Times
Show threadChristopher MastoNov 22, 2022

@jeffjarvis “Users pick a server — such as journa.host — and can interact with other users throughout Mastodon, with exceptions. If this all sounds complicated, that’s because it is”

If that’s the benchmark for complicated, I’m worried about our survival as a species. You mean I have to open the box, pour it into a bowl, AND add milk? I can’t handle this breakfast techno-gibberish!

Show threadVirtue signal 💉💉💉🇺🇸 🇺🇦Nov 22, 2022

@masto @jeffjarvis

That's basically what I've been saying this past week... Its a basic Internet literacy issue and these critics want to toss that all out in favor of "clicky on big icon in app store".

Show threadNik Nov 22, 2022

@tasket

I'd argue it's not internet literacy. I'm exceptionally internet educated, and I had no idea how to recommend a server for my wife. (I'm on one run by a podcaster I like that's populated by fellow nerds.)

Which server has the best community for my wife? Where will she find a place to discover voices about medicine, politics, and academica? Where will she most easily discover people like this to follow?

I still don't know how to evaluate this meaningfully.

@masto @jeffjarvis

Show threadAnother white guy on MastodonNov 22, 2022
@inik @tasket @masto @jeffjarvis I had a similar issue. My wife wanted to join but also didn’t want to go through (at the time and soon to be many more) 7,400 instances to find one that matches her interests and didn’t know where to even start looking. I see it as the classic command line UI issue people used to talk about with Linux. I too was lucky because I just joined the instance for the podcasts I listen too.
Show threadSarenNov 22, 2022
@Rendfest @inik @tasket @masto @jeffjarvis I see what you all are saying. I guess it depends what approach you take to finding your community on Mastodon. I did not look for a server that would be my community. I just looked for a general interest server based on location and language and one that had good rules and was not too big. To build community, I started by looking for the people I enjoyed following on Twitter.
Show threadJeff JarvisNov 22, 2022
@saren @Rendfest @inik @tasket @masto Same here. My communities are spread all across Mastodon, just as they are across the internet and world.
Show thread…here for the creativity…Nov 22, 2022
@jeffjarvis @saren @Rendfest @inik @tasket @masto I think changing my mindset about what social media is “supposed” to look like (having gotten used to centralized platforms) has helped me to grasp the vastness of it. Things had become so limited elsewhere and I was (sadly) comfortable there. Mastodon can be overwhelming in the beginning but it’s liberating, from my point of view.
Show threadAnother white guy on Mastodon
@catacosmosis @jeffjarvis @saren @inik @tasket @masto Yes! Thank you for articulating this the way you have here!
Nov 23, 2022 at 12:08amWeb